Blasco Disputatio is a yearly workshop designed to promote the discussion on topics in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. Each edition of this workshop focuses on a particular issue to be disputed by two invited speakers that will defend divergent, if not opposing, views. A call for papers will be made for contributions that will explore further aspects of the topic.

Views about the role of singular terms in fictional discourse have mostly focussed on prima facie empty terms, made up by authors of fiction, such as ‘Bezukhov’ in War and Peace. Singular terms in fictions that are already in use outside them, such as ‘Napoleon’ in the same work, have not received as much attention. An issue they raise is whether or not theorists –whether or not they are realists about fictional characters– should give them the same treatment that their made-up counterparts receive. In the 2017 Blasco Disputatio, Stacie Friend and Manuel García-Carpintero will argue for contrasting views on this matter. The workshop will also be open to discussing any related issues on the semantics of singular terms in fiction and on other aspects concerning fictional discourse. The invited papers, together with a selection of the submitted papers will appear on a special issue in the journal Disputatio.

Call for papers: We invite submissions on any aspect of the debate on the semantics of singular terms in fiction and on other philosophical issues concerning fictional discourse. Authors should submit full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (2000 words) by May 19th, 2017. Submissions should be sent to blascodisputatio@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance should be expected by June 19th, 2017. Download in pdf.

Sponsors: Spanish Research Council, via Network on Epistemology and Society (FFI2014-55256-REDT) and the research projects: “About Ourselves” (FFI2013-47948-P) and “Self-Knowledge, Moral Responsibility and Authenticity” (FI2016-75323-P); Internationalization and Cooperation University Office (UV), Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences (UV), Department of Philosophy (UV), and Philosophical Society in the Valencian Country.

Blasco Disputatio is a yearly workshop designed to promote the discussion on topics in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. Each edition of this workshop focuses on a particular issue to be disputed by two invited speakers that will defend divergent, if not opposing, views. A call for papers will be made for contributions that will explore further aspects of the topic.

The availability of alternative courses of action seems to be a necessary condition on free will. How could an action be free, if the agent could not possibly have done otherwise? However, Harry Frankfurt’s well-known arguments seem to have established that freedom and moral responsibility do not require alternative courses of action. On Frankfurt’s influential conception, freedom has to do with the peculiarities of the actual causal history that produces the action. The 2016 edition of the Blasco Disputatio will be mainly focused on the question of whether free will requires alternative possibilities and on the role of causation in a proper understanding of freedom, but it is open to discussing any related issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of action. The invited papers, together with a selection of the submitted papers, will appear on a special issue in the journal Disputatio.

Call for papers: We invite submissions on any aspect of the debate on free will and the metaphysics of action. Authors should submit full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (2000 words) by May 15th, 2016. Submissions should be sent to blascodisputatio@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance should be expected by June 15, 2016

Sponsored by: Spanish Research Council via Network on Epistemology and Society (FFI2014-55256-REDT); Internationalization and Cooperation University Office, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Department of Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge, and Philosophical Society in the Valencian Country.

I BLASCO DISPUTATIO: PRAGMATISM
València, October 26-27, 2015

Blasco Disputatio is a yearly workshop designed to promote the discussion on any topic in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. Each edition of this workshop focuses on a particular issue to be disputed by two invited speakers that will defend divergent, if not opposing, views. A call for papers will be made for contributions that will explore further aspects of the topic. The 2015 edition is open to discussing any issue concerning pragmatism.

Invited speakers: Marian David (University of Graz) and Jose Zalabardo (University College London)

Call for papers: We invite submissions on any aspect of the debate on pragmatism. Authors should submit full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (2000 words) by June 15th, 2015. Submissions should be sent to blascodisputatio@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance should be expected by July 15, 2015

Sponsored by: Spanish Research Council via Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts (Consolider-Ingenio CSD2009-00056), About Ourselves (FFI2013-47948-P), The Scope and Limits of Responsibility (FFI2012-33470), and Epistemology and Society (FFI2014-55256-REDT); Internationalization and Cooperation University Office, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Department of Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge, and Philosophical Society in the Valencian Country.